The House (2022) review

Three stop-motion shorts from England are centered on the concept of buildings in various states of change: in part one, a poor family of dirty cotton balls are given the opportunity by a "great architect" to live in a fancy mansion (only for the parents to be transformed into furniture), in the middle piece a housing developer who sank all his money into a new house can't sell it and then finds vermin have moved in (and he can't get rid of them) and for the last section, the planet is underwater (as usual) and a landlord can't afford to keep her beloved apartment complex going.  The animation is definitely distinctive - and a nice change of pace from the usual CGI - but all the segments center on a basic premise: torment the lead characters the entire time until they finally (a.) escape (b.) succumb to the madness or (c.) break free, which is exactly what happens with the mercifully uplifting last ending.  Children might be curious about watching it, but it's so bleak they'll probably drift off to play with their iPads....